It’s been a while since we’ve seen a movie from the legendary director behind The Warriors, 48 Hours, and Streets of Fire. Walter Hill hasn’t released a movie for over five years, but thankfully, that dry spell has ended. Quiver Distribution has released the new trailer for Dead for a Dollar, a western starring Christoph Waltz, Willem Dafoe, and Rachel Brosnahan.
Christoph Waltz stars in Dead for a Dollar as Max Borlund, a famed bounty hunter hired to find Rachel Price (Brosnahan), the politically progressive wife of Santa Fe businessman Nathan Price. Told that she’s been kidnapped by an African American army deserter and being held for ransom in Mexico, Max goes south of the border in search of her, only to run across his sworn enemy, Joe Cribbens (Dafoe), a professional gambler who Max had tracked down and sent to prison years before. In addition to Waltz, Brosnahan, and Dafoe, Dead for a Dollar also stars Brandon Scott, Warren Burke, Benjamin Bratt, Hamish Linklater, and Guy Burnet.
Walter Hill is no stranger to the Western genre. He’s helmed The Long Riders, Geronimo, and Wild Bill; In fact, he considers just about every film he’s done to be a Western in some fashion. “Every film I’ve done has been a Western,” Hill has said in the past. “The Western is ultimately a stripped down moral universe that is, whatever the dramatic problems are, beyond the normal avenues of social control and social alleviation of the problem, and I like to do that even within contemporary stories.“
The official synopsis for Dead for a Dollar:
Veteran bounty hunter Max Borlund is deep into Mexico where he encounters professional gambler and outlaw Joe Cribbens – a sworn enemy he sent to prison years before. Max is on a mission to find and return Rachel Kidd, the wife of a wealthy businessman, who as the story is told to Max, has been abducted by Buffalo Soldier Elijah Jones. Max is ultimately faced with a showdown to save honor.
Dead for a Dollar will premiere at the Venice Film Festival on September 6th before hitting theaters on September 30th. What do you think of the Dead for a Dollar trailer?
